On 18 November 2015 at 15:07, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
In general, we struggle with these external sources of
information. (And
this extends to the industry in general). The Research team expended a lot
of energy to correct the way another service interpreted our traffic and I
believe this feedback was not incorporated.
Indeed. From that site specifically:
"Not all websites implement our on-site analytics and publish the results.
For these sites, we show estimated metrics based on traffic patterns across
the web as a whole. We identify these patterns by looking at the activity
of millions of web users throughout the world, and using data normalization
to correct for any biases."
With regards to this specific topic, Discovery is starting to explore
metrics like what percentage of our traffic comes from referrers. You can
see our efforts on
https://discovery.wmflabs.org/external/. Developing this
dashboard is a secondary priority for the Discovery Analysis Team right
now; we're prioritising more directly supporting our product development
with A/B test analysis and dashboarding.
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation